All Roll Calls
Yes: 63 • No: 0
Sponsored By: Senate Committee on Judiciary
Signed by Governor
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Traffic tickets that are civil infractions now come with clear notice and a 90‑day deadline to respond. Hearings can be by phone or video. Judges can take sworn statements and other useful evidence, and they can subpoena witnesses. An officer’s sworn written statement can replace a live appearance; if no sworn statement or appearance is made, the ticket is dismissed unless other proof shows the infraction. Before the hearing, the court can require a bond or cash deposit up to the full fine and fees, but must waive it if you cannot pay or you are a legal aid client.
A judge can reduce a moving violation to a nonmoving violation. You must admit the violation, pay the full fine and fees by your first required appearance, and give the court your driving record. The court cannot reduce it if your record shows a pattern of moving violations.
Prosecutors can choose to treat many traffic misdemeanors as civil infractions. This choice does not apply to the core DUI crimes set in state law. If you are also charged with DUI, an infraction tied to the same event can be filed as a misdemeanor. If the DUI is later dismissed, that misdemeanor must be reduced back to a civil infraction, unless the dismissal was part of a plea deal.
Your legal duties after a crash apply on highways and on places open to the public. You must stop, share information, help anyone hurt, report as required, and move a vehicle that creates a hazard when safe. Each failure is a misdemeanor.
A judge can combine a misdemeanor case and a related civil infraction from the same incident into one hearing. The criminal rules apply to the hearing, but the infraction is decided by a preponderance of the evidence. The judge hears the case without a jury and issues both decisions at the same time. If appointing an indigent-defense lawyer is required for the misdemeanor, the court must separate the parts as needed.
County boards may adopt ordinances to use civil fines instead of criminal penalties for county code violations, unless state law forbids it or requires criminal charges. Civil-penalty money from municipal courts goes to the city treasurer; money from justice courts goes to the county treasurer. The place of the violation no longer decides where the money goes.
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All Roll Calls
Yes: 63 • No: 0
House vote • 5/23/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (2nd Reprint)
Yes: 42 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/15/2025
Final Passage - Senate (As Introduced)
Yes: 21 • No: 0
Chapter 260.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
Assembly Amendment Nos. 574 and 640 concurred in. To enrollment.
In Senate.
Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.
From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.
Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 640.) To printer.
Dispensed with reprinting.
Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 574.)
Placed on Second Reading File.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
Rereferred to Committee on Judiciary. To committee.
Withdrawn from Committee on Growth and Infrastructure.
Read first time. Referred to Committee on Growth and Infrastructure. To committee.
In Assembly.
Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.
Read second time.
Placed on Second Reading File.
From committee: Do pass.
From printer. To committee.
Read first time. Referred to Committee on Growth and Infrastructure. To printer.
As Enrolled
As Introduced
Reprint 1
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